RoboCop 2 program

The RoboCop 2 program was an OCP initiative designed to combat the new and huge wave of crime sweeping the city due to the new designer drug nuke, and to help protect workers during the construction of Delta City.

The project was first headed by Donald Johnson and Dr. Schenk. Johnson had tremendous difficulty finding a suitable candidate like officer Alex Murphy - a dutiful, inherently good person who was reconstructed as RoboCop. This led to failures as the cyborgs could not accept their new, inhuman forms. A psychologist named Dr. Juliette Faxx was to persuade the Old Man to try using a nuke addict in the hope that his dependence on the drug would lead to better control over the cyborg.

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The first RoboCop 2 was a bipedal machine whose entire body was mechanical and possessed his remaining human head in the carapace. Almost immediately it went rogue, disturbed by the psychosis of being a machine, the robot attempting to fulfill its mission it immediately acted, shooting one techie dead and wounding a second, before shooting itself through the cranial dome, destroying itself.

The second prototype, a mostly humanoid, almost skeletal type of cyborg, was more tragic. After stepping through the doors and presenting itself, it attempted to remove its helmet to expose it's human face, having none, it severed its life support lines. The abomination's skull-like visage managed a gruelling wail of distress before it fell face first to the floor, dead for a second time.

All attempts to replicate the success of Alex Murphy as RoboCop ended in miserable failure. Further analysis as to why various candidates failed suggests the human attachment to their prior human bodies. While good officers, the egos of these officers revolved around their bodies, with machismo and body proud, the officers when stripped of that identity lose all sense of self and thus became suicidal. Murphy's success lied in his personality, namely his desire to live. Dr. Faxx concludes that Alex Murphy's strong sense of duty and his Irish Catholic religion were the reasons behind his ability to adapt to his resurrection as RoboCop (namely the Catholic moral objection to suicide)

The subject for what finally became RoboCop 2 one was a nuke addict, as suggested by Dr. Faxx. In theory, this may have been a successful idea, Faxx convinces the Old Man to let her control the project, this time using someone who wanted to be a robot or more than a man, even a criminal with a desire for power and immortality. However, this particular nuke addict was Cain, already pre-mad and pre-psychotic, even before being killed and reformatted into RoboCop 2.